Do you participate in any other communities?

Nope. I never found another place that felt as comfortable as Daniweb.

Not recently, unless you count SO.

Sorry for just stumbling upon this now. Rev, do you STILL find DNiWeb comfortable? Pritaeas, are you active on SO? Is it the high activity that keeps you there or are there other actionable things that work there that we could implement here?

Comfortable? Yes, especially with the recent improvements. It just seems snazzier. I would wish for more programming questions (intelligently asked) but that's beyond your ability to provide. I have no interest in endless posts about SEO, backlinks, etc. I think those topics have been beaten to death. I will add that one other site I pop into frequently is the wxPython forum. Although I'm doing less and less application stuff as I have written most of what I need for my own use so I'm frequenting that site less often.

Yes.

SO,CodeRanch,DreamInCode,TheCodingForum, and CodeProject.

Tech fora? Not so much these days, though I still check the OSDev.org forum from time to time, and am on the Discord for the Craft Computing YouTube channel. I am mostly on LGBT+ related Discords lately, and the forum and Discord for the Whateley Academy web serial novel series.

Also participating in /r/solar and a techsupport subreddit. The first since we installed solar on the home and I had a few questions beyond what I knew. The second because once in a while I'll know what to try.

@Dani

Not really active, but will visit sometime

Stack Overflow for the Java content

Late, must've missed this.

Pritaeas, are you active on SO? Is it the high activity that keeps you there or are there other actionable things that work there that we could implement here?

Not really active, more a searcher than an answerer. Since I'm doing a lot more .NET I find more answers there than here. It's the content that gets me there.

At the moment I'm mostly doing API integrations, building plugins for our main software to be able to communicate between different (online) software packages.

RIP Dream.In.Code :(

I'm a long-time moderator on cprogramming.com, but it's getting awfully quiet on many of the old forums.

DiC was a loss, as was devshed.

I seem to be most active now on reddit.

I was talking to Chris (the DiC founder/owner) a little bit before he decided to shut it down. He was saying he's been so busy with his other businesses that he spent maybe 5 minutes on it over the past 5 years, so he lost interest, and it wasn't paying its server costs.

At least in the case of DaniWeb, it also isn't even coming close to paying its costs, but I most certainly haven't lost interest.

As for Devshed, it ended up being sold as part of a bundle of forums (Devshed, SEOChat, etc.) to my friend Jim Boykin, who owns Internet Marketing Ninjas. I was super excited when he bought them because I love having friends also in the forum business who I can talk shop with.

Google then released an anti-forum algorithm, and DaniWeb was hit suuuuuuuuuper hard, as was Devshed. Jim ended up just writing them off as a loss and gave them to Brett Tabke, the founder of Webmaster World, who also runs the Pubcon conference in Vegas I just attended earlier this month.

I was talking about Devshed to both Jim and Brett while there, and apparently neither of them could figure out how to get the database off of vBulletin 3 and onto a more modern system. Apparently there were a lot of plug-ins being used that, according to Brett, left the database severely corrupted and unusable. He ended up selling off the domain names and deleted the databases off of his hdd because he thought they were infected with a virus (Don't ask me lol).

I literally begged Brett to see if he had any versions of the database anywhere that he could give me, and see if I could do anything with it. But he said he deleted them all.

Oh, and as for Reddit, Google has taken a very keen interest in Reddit as of recently. They just began paying them for full access to their internal API to get a stream of all Reddit content. Plus they just very recently IPO'ed a few days ago and their stock is doing quite well. (I bought a little on opening day).

Oh, and that reminds me, ... does Reddit have programming subreddits where you can actually post and debug code a la DaniWeb? I never took Reddit for being an excellent medium for programming.

Yeah, there are sub-reddits for most languages and programming in general.

I'm spending way too much time in https://www.reddit.com/r/C_Programming/ for example.

There's the usual collection of helpful people, pedants, trolls and idiots - but that's true anywhere. The mods seem to be keeping it ticking over nicely.

yeah, reddit also

Reddit, warrior forum, site point, currency dynamics forum and I guess that is all. Mostly it is or technical forums or forex. Just trying to understand that niche better that is all. Site point is a good ui/ux design forum btw so worth I guess to check!

Super familiar with Sitepoint :) Their forums used to be a big competitor to DaniWeb back in the day.

Why did you inject a random spammy link into the middle of your post? :(

I was very much active back then on Expert-Exchange, Stackoverflow, but I was more into DaniWeb before the changes but I was and still not a fan of Stackoverflow because of its limitations when you try solving problems so that's the reason why I ended up focusing here and on EE then EE started blocking with that EE certificate I don't really understand what they were planning exactly because it locked out many people preventing them from accessing the forum. But now mine has been sorted as well just that I've lost interest in it.

Owh @Dani,are you referring to the one and only Jim that we have here at Dw?

I was more into DaniWeb before the changes

What changes? You mean just how our traffic/activity has decreased over the years?

Owh @Dani,are you referring to the one and only Jim that we have here at Dw?

My friend Jim Boykin isn’t active on DaniWeb, I’m afraid. I’m pretty sure he’s a member, but not an active one.

What changes? You mean just how our traffic/activity has decreased over the years?

Yes, but I think there can be something that can be done to increase the traffic because you find now that if you have that few minutes spare time and login to see if there are any questions of interest or new but find mostly old questions and logout after browsing around.

But the change was needed but I think there can be something we as the community members can do to regain the traffic as much as it may take some time but eventually we will get there again.

My friend Jim Boykin isn’t active on DaniWeb, I’m afraid. I’m pretty sure he’s a member, but not an active one.

Ok, I thought you were talking about Reverend Jim.

It's been really hard to keep up with promoting the website and SEO ever since I got sick.

Another forum shutting down

https://www.codeproject.com/script/Common/Error.aspx

RIP Dream in code and Codeproject :(

I'm sad to see codeproject go. I was a daily visitor there.

Is it really going down? In few days back I visited it and it said there's some sort of a company that is busy upgrading it and it will be up soon. This is very terrible to see such groups going down, worse thing they have so much information we find on the internet they are playing a very big part on the internet.

From CodeProject:

Shortly the site will be switched into read-only mode. Our hope with this change is to allow another party to maintain the site as an archive of great code, articles and technical advice. We are working hard to make that happen and while in no way guaranteed, things look very promising so far. However for the foreseeable future, and possibly permanently, new postings will be disabled, for articles, for forums, for QuickAnswers and the other portions of the site.

My hope is that it remains online, even if only in read-only mode. There is a lot of good stuff there.

Does anyone use Bytes.com?

I discovered Daniweb from a post, which recommended 10 technical communities outside of China. The seventh is Daniweb, and the ninth is dreamincode.